dale wiley attacked with the 47th infantry regiment. >> the combat really was fire fights.our squad or your platoon would be moving up and suddenly you would get fire from the germans. >> in the forests we had our foxholes. the trees were narrow trees out there, so we just stayed at the fringe of the forest. >> does it make any sense to you, as a german soldier, that they would come through here? >> it doesn't make any sense because it's -- this is a wooded area. this is not infantry country. >> the huertgen forest has been compared to a jungle because the growth was so thick, so mysterious, because of the nature of the battlefield, because of the way ar little herry shells went off in tree tops. >> you could hear them coming in and they would hit the top of the trees. you never knew what was going to come down. >> the artillery shells were few so they would detonate when they came in contact with any object, ground, tree top or a branch, enough to send a cascade red hot metal fragments down upon any soldier who happened to be unlucky enough to be directly underneath that.